Acrostic poem Life is very hard In search for gold, but no luck
Found one tiny speck Even the Chinese found gold
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My journal
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Girls in the goldfields were supposed to dress up like their
mothers. They wore tight waist so the top of the dress would pop
up. They wore tight leather boots with bright stockings to tell
them they were ladies
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The men and boys cloths: Basically, for the boys the just wear
what their fathers wore. The men and boys wore long tracksuit pants
with a leather belt to hold it up. The men wore these long top hat
and the higher the hat was, the richer they were.it was rough for
the boys because they only had 2-3 pairs of clothes. The under 5
boys had the worst issue of clothing, dresses
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What did they eat on the goldfields? Food: Food on the
goldfields would have been the hardest thing ever to do. They ate
mutton(lamb)damper(a bread made of flour, water and salt) and tea.
The storage of food was appalling as well as water. It was rare of
miners to get clean water because the liquid had been mixed with
dirt from all the panning happening in the creeks. A lot of people
were dying from food infestation and diseases (typhoid and
dysentery) they built stores and traders to buy food( the food was
actually clean)
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Sleeping in the goldfields would have been as hard as finding
food. They were all in huge campsites. At first they slept in small
tents that could possibly fit 7 people each. Then they moved on o
huts made of canvas, bark and wood. Hotels, jail and the government
camps were also made of the same material (note: canvas was least
used to build). To live in the hotel would of cost
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Many people came to the Australian goldmines and goldfields, in
search for gold. The country that sent most people would have been
the Chinese. Their only goal was, to receive a satisfactory level
of gold to satisfy themselves. Most boat trips took about 7-8
months. The rate of survival was very low. Some people were killed
from digestion, but mostly people died from infections. Miners that
survived the 8 months were very weak and unfit. Until they regained
their strength.
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Life for woman and children Life for the women and children was
tough. Women had to do the most natural choirs suited for a women's
nature. Meaning laundry, feeding the kids, hide the gold, basically
they mostly do what the Chinese people do. Men sometimes think that
they do most of the work. The only thing they do is the mine.
Whenever men were unsatisfied and bored, the women and the children
had to dance or entertain them men until they were satisfied.
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Did everyone find gold? Miners found little specks of gold, but
Found 2 main discoveries in the gold rush. There was hotelman's
nugget and welcome stranger. The Welcome stranger nugget was
discovered on the 5th February 1853 BY John Deason and Richard
Oates. The Hotelman's nugget was named after Benhadt Otto
Holtermann. His gold nugget weighed 256kg and was 1.5 m long
